The Grenada gazette., 1887-11-19
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Aer rs he kicked something and ca,lset
; the chair TO 90 into convuIsions ant
straighten out. "No, I'll be hanged i
Lean see how it is that BARRIERS hav,
the reputation of being such awfu
takers. 'Tain't fair. They don't tall
40 more than other people--l believe
IN the whole, that they don't talk rs
much. Tn quiet; I'm no talkcr;
don't rattle away about nothing. 81,
9 little higher, please The victim
was at his mercy.
speaking Of journeymen BARRIERS. u
continued the artist, II once knew one
named Jim Mack who beat any thing
you ever heard Of He worked for me
when l had a shop out at Denver.
Great hand to read. Astonishing
reader. Probably one of the most lit
erary men in the profession. He'd lay
apiece OF newspaper on customers 8
shoulder, go to reading something on
it. and stand still ten minutes. Ii the
article wasn't all there he'd 90 of
hunting it up. Perhaps wouldn't get
back for two hours Customer gets
tired and goes off-n,ay be kicks the
chair to pieces and smashes a mirror
before he leaves depended on his tenn
per- Never ruflled Jim particle.
"Jim used to 60 to supper at six
o'clock. Would be shaving around a
mans chin when the six o'clock
whistle blew, drop the razor and start
for his coat; razor cuts mans throat;
good customer gone, perhaps. Took
off the mayor Of the city that way.
Man who got shaved every day and
haircut once a month, too. Man also
took baths. Too good a customer to
lose, but couldn't help it. After that
had all Jim's razors hung over the
chair by an elastic from the ceiling, so
when he let 60 of them at the first toot
lPf the whistle they would fly up, and
he wouldn't come back to finish his
man after half an hour and find the
coroner and six jurymen in the shop
and business all demoralized.
"Remarkably independent man Jim
was, too. Customers couldn't boss
him. He got lots of hair-cuts that way.
If the man kicked he would put his
arm around him and hold him and cut
it anyhow. One day the Methodist
minister got in his chair, and said Jim:
Hair cut. sir9' No, thank you,' said
the minister. Better have it trimmed
little said Jim. Not to-day re-
piled the minister. 1T needs cutting
went on Jim; 'it's long an bushy, an
shaggy, an has hay-seed in it, an
looks like thunder 4 prefer it that
way, said the minister, pretty sharp.
%, you do, do you9' yelled Jim. Well
see if you keep it that way! Come out
OF this and he dragged him out of the
chair and began swinging him around
close to the floor and KNOCKING the
chairs in all directions. Take that,
an that he whooped, and he wound
him around the stove half dozen
times. Don't want your hair cut,
heyp Too stingy to get it moved, are
you9 Want to beat poor, quiet bar
ber out of half dollar, do you? Coin
to cut your own hair after this, mebby?
And all this time he kept hitting at him
with chair leg. Now we'll see about
it! And he got the minister down on
the floor on his face and reached for a
pair of clippers. and in five minutes the
preacher head looked as if it had been
sandpapered, and Jim had picked his
pocket of half dollar and showed him
out of the door, and thrown his hat and
overcoat after him. Jim was a great
man for shop in getting hair-cuts.
Before spring there wasn't enough hair
On all our customers heads to wad
gun.
"He was just like that about every
hing. Every body had to take bay
'um. hair oil, powder, and the whole
list. One time big rich capitalist
rom St Louis who had come out to
'uy gold mines objected. Don't want
Ill, hey?' howled Jim. Think our oil
lint good, mebbyp' And he got the
nan by the throat and began shooting
he oil all over him. Got an idea YOU
an come in here and run the shop l
eckon. Think cause you got plug
at an double chin that you can do
$ you pleaseP' And all the time squirt,
quirt went the hair oil all over the St.
'ouis man. There roared Jim, as
he last of the oil went in the mans
ye and he broke the bottle over his
cad, there. take that an get out of
ere, an if you stay in Denver over I
70 hours longer I'll shoot you OH \
ght! :
Powerful inventive, too, Jim was -,
ade wise something like they use on
carpenters bench aud attached it to
le chair to put the mans head in.
hen he would screw it up tight to hold
m still. He said he couldn't bear to
I'VE mans head rolling around while I
} was shaving him. He believed III
le-whiskers exclusively, too. Made n